Brookes Brown (UNC): The Uneasy Status of Statism. How political idealism leads us astray: Will Wilkinson reviewsThe Tyranny of the Ideal: Justice in a Diverse Society by Gerald Gaus (and more and more). Barton Swaim reviewsSocial Justice Isn't What You Think It Is by Michael Novak and Paul Adams with Elizabeth Shaw.

Kal Raustiala (UCLA): Governing the Internet. Cyberwar for sale: After a maker of surveillance software was hacked, its leaked documents shed light on a shadowy global industry that has turned email theft into a terrifying — and lucrative — political weapon. Canadian mining's dark heart: Tallying the human cost of gold in one of the most remote places on Earth. Why men don’t want the jobs done mostly by women: When men take so-called pink-collar jobs, they have more job security but they also feel stigmatized. The introduction to The Political Poetess: Victorian Femininity, Race, and the Legacy of Separate Spheres by Tricia Lootens. Victor Gilinsky on the real German submarine scandal.

Confronted with intel he didn't like, Trump eyes major CIA changes. Trump's war on the intelligence community is all about ego — and it won't end well for him or for America. Trump prepping ominous moves to gut US intel capacity: It looks like what's coming will be a Bush Era "stove-piping and conspiracy theory as intelligence analysis" on steroids unlike anything we've ever seen. Trump keeps denying Russian meddling — but he can't outrun the facts forever. Does the Russian hack matter? When the facts get sacrificed to politics. Donald Trump, Julian Assange, and the control of the Republican mind: Trump's insinuation that his fans will ignore any evidence of his guilt, however plain, has been vindicated — perhaps no episode has demonstrated the Fifth Avenue Principle more dramatically than the case of the Russian email hack.